ABC Upfront/General News and Discussion: 2022-23

[icecream]

ABC News Live is one channel that has really stayed under the radar. I had never seen ads on parent ABC or even heard of it until I saw today's Martin Lawrence blog.

[TVSCREEN2015]

The Goldbergs is Ending With Season 10
https://tvline.com/2023/02/23/the-go...season-10-abc/

[icecream]

Duluth, Minnesota has a horrible ABC affiliate. They are airing high school hockey in primetime, delaying tonight's return of Alaska Daily to 2AM.

[James28]

How is it possible that ABC's World News Tonight is the "most watched program in all of television", as claimed by recent promos for it?

[TJ]

Originally Posted by icecream

Duluth, Minnesota has a horrible ABC affiliate. They are airing high school hockey in primetime, delaying tonight's return of Alaska Daily to 2AM.

High school hockey is hugely popular in Minnesota. It's like high school football in Texas. They live for it.

Originally Posted by James28

How is it possible that ABC's World News Tonight is the "most watched program in all of television", as claimed by recent promos for it?

They've been making that claim in their press releases for a long time. Maybe they are only talking about early evening newscasts.

https://www.dgepress.com/abc?s=world+news&searchsubmit=

[James28]

BREAKING NEWS: Grey's Anatomy is Renewed for a Twentieth Season.

Also executive producer Meg Marinis will become GA's new showrunner, replacing the departing Krista Vernoff.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/greys-a...rn-1235309800/

[icecream]

9-1-1 has been renewed for season 7, but traded from FOX to ABC! Making it stranger is spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star remaining on FOX (that show never had the quality of its parent though). ABC's Monday night fall lineup now should almost certainly be all scripted with 9-1-1 at its current time, The Good Doctor moving an hour earlier, and The Good Lawyer. Get the lousy Bachelor franchise back to just summer and January, remove that garbage permanently from fall and cancel the Paradise spin-off. I know Alaska Daily is considered a long shot but I hope ABC is behind its terrific quality for season 2. It wouldn't have to be on the fall schedule, midseason would be fine. Hopefully their missing Native American page on ABC's site plugged at the end of each episode is a sign of intending to continue.

[icecream]

Something I had not thought of that a Spoiler TV poster mentioned: 9-1-1 can move to Thursdays at 8:00, with Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy moving an hour later. That would make for a really powerhouse Thursday, better idea than wasting 9-1-1 on Tuesday like so many want. This can be their fall schedule. May the strike get resolved a lot quicker this time by Memorial Day or soon after.

Sundays
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Dancing with the Stars return to ABC- Len's schedule was the main reason they couldn't move to Sunday before.
10:00 Alaska Daily- Stand behind this show's quality please! I have heard AD does well on delayed viewing, so Thursday just might not have been the right night for it.

Mondays
8:00 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune/The Chase
9:00 The Good Doctor
10:00 The Good Lawyer

Tuesdays
8:00 The Rookie
9:00 New Drama
10:00 Will Trent

Wednesdays- Go aggressive with new comedies with The Conners rumored to be a final season. What a shame The Wonder Years got screwed over in favor of garbage Home Economics.
8:00 The Conners
8:30 New Comedy
9:00 Abbott Elementary
9:30 New Comedy
10:00 The Rookie: Feds

Thursdays
8:00 9-1-1
9:00 Station 19
10:00 Grey's Anatomy

Fridays
8:00 Shark Tank
9:00 20/20- a waste keeping this two hours but ABC is too lazy to reduce it to the original format now.

Midseason
Not Dead Yet
Judge Steve Harvey
Sundays January The Bachelor
Sundays March American Idol

Cancelled/Ending
Celebrity Jeopardy!- I was very unimpressed with this. It cheapens the intellectual value of the franchise with all the dumb and annoying celebrities they got, and too much filler so they can expand to an hour. Celebrity Wheel depends more on luck, and at least they still get two complete games in. But Celebrity Jeopardy! getting cancelled would be no loss.
Big Sky- Season 3 was great, but with Reba gone season 4 would naturally fall from that quality. TV Grim Reaper seems to think the season 3 rule makes it safe, but it is nowhere near 66 episodes. Speechless sadly got cancelled after 3 seasons and it was a lot closer.
The Goldbergs
The Wonder Years
Home Economics
A Million Little Things
The Company You Keep

[James28]

Originally Posted by icecream

9-1-1 has been renewed for season 7, but traded from FOX to ABC! Making it stranger is spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star remaining on FOX (that show never had the quality of its parent though). ABC's Monday night fall lineup now should almost certainly be all scripted with 9-1-1 at its current time, The Good Doctor moving an hour earlier, and The Good Lawyer. Get the lousy Bachelor franchise back to just summer and January, remove that garbage permanently from fall and cancel the Paradise spin-off.

Dancing with the Stars being announced to return to ABC after just one year as a Disney+ exclusive just a day after 9-1-1 moving to ABC was announced threw quite the monkey wrench into that fantasy scheduling. DwtS remaining on Mondays would mean 9-1-1, The Good Doctor, and The Good Lawyer all getting held to midseason. No way I'm burying 9-1-1 like that or in any other way. 9-1-1 on Thursdays wouldn't be bad, either.

Also, 9-1-1, the highest-rated drama on the FOX Network, moving to ABC next year may be reminiscent of Wagon Train moving to ABC from NBC over 60 years ago after having been the top series on NBC since season 2 (including a #1 placing in the annual Nielsen ratings for season 5).

[icecream]

Originally Posted by James28

Dancing with the Stars being announced to return to ABC after just one year as a Disney+ exclusive just a day after 9-1-1 moving to ABC was announced threw quite the monkey wrench into that fantasy scheduling. DwtS remaining on Mondays would mean 9-1-1, The Good Doctor, and The Good Lawyer all getting held to midseason. No way I'm burying 9-1-1 like that or in any other way. 9-1-1 on Thursdays wouldn't be bad, either.

Also, 9-1-1, the highest-rated drama on the FOX Network, moving to ABC next year may be reminiscent of Wagon Train moving to ABC from NBC over 60 years ago after having been the top series on NBC since season 2 (including a #1 placing in the annual Nielsen ratings for season 5).

See my follow-up schedule from today. Dancing With the Stars should move to Sunday.

[James28]

This is going to be a really tough loss for IceCream: ABC just fired Alaska Daily today. Too bad; I liked his idea of putting it after DWTS or American Idol next season.

The casts and crews of Big Sky and The Company You Keep (the latter a non-surprise) will also be cleaning out their desks today.

https://tvline.com/2023/05/12/abc-ca...pany-you-keep/

[icecream]

First episode of The Game Show Show about quiz shows was interesting. Episode two, not so much. It is bad enough reality shows take over the second half of this so-called series about game shows, they snuck one in this week with Shark Tank. I am no fan of Press Your Luck, but that would have fit in on a big money game show episode more, it is even a current ABC remake.

[icecream]

Almost everything is put on demand from this network, including Celebrity Jeopardy! which finished several months ago. But the Jeopardy! Masters tournament is still not available yet, I would have watched Monday's episode live instead of the 9-1-1 FOX finale if I had known.